Adventures

In 25 years of designing, co-creating, and researching games and play for impact, I’ve learned about the deep and multidimensional power of play.

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Serious about play

Ellis has been talking often and in many places world wide about play, games and the impact play can have and how to design

Speaking can be like playing

I was invited to talk (again) on the IGDC the Indian Game Developers Conference in Hyderabad. I spoke about “Designing for Impact: How to

Journey to India

Thanks to several organisations as the Dutch Embassy in India, Dutch Culture and the DGA, I was invited to visit India to share knowledge

Interviewed on play

I was interviewed for a Dutch Magazine CoachLink and it is an impressive article they created. I am mostly proud to be together in

Online summit this april!

I am very pleased to announce that I will be one of the 44 international speakers featured in The Playful Creative Summit 2020. This

Play in Kuala Lumpur

While visiting old friends and colleagues at WHW& associates in Kuala Lumpur, I was so lucky that Allie Hill arranged an event for me

Verso – storytelling

Last month I was invited to tell the story about writing my book Apply Play • to get ahead of the game at Verso: A

ellis in finance land

Beginning of this month I was invited to give a Lecture.nl at InsingerGilissen about play and the impact of play. There was great interaction

Games for Health 2018

In nov 2012 I was invited to talk at Games for Health Europe Conference in Amsterdam… that was also one of my first talks